Lay claim

"Lay claim" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.

Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.

Just ahead of the auction, though, a potential heir from outside the family, laid claim on the work, according to Austria's Der Standard newspaper.

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